The Thousand Sunny coasted peacefully across the sunlit, cerulean waves of the Grand Line. After the high-stakes, breathless battle of Thriller Bark, the ocean currently seemed almost suspiciously calm.
On the grassy main deck, the crew of the Straw Hat was indulging in a rare morning of absolute leisure.
Sitting in a wide circle near the main mast, passing around a massive, sloshing wooden barrel of aged ale, were the four Elbaf warriors. Dory the Blue Ogre, Brogy the Red Ogre, Oimo, and Kashii
"Gebabababa! Drink deep, my brothers!" Dory roared, wiping a thick layer of foam from his weathered beard. "The ale of the Blue Sea is not as thick as the brew of Elbaf, but it certainly quenches a warrior's thirst on a hot day!"
"Aye, Dory-san!" Kashii laughed, tipping his tankard back.
Nearby, sitting comfortably on a woven blanket spread across the grass, Princess Vivi was methodically brushing down Caroo's bright yellow feathers. The large spot-billed duck had his eyes closed in sheer bliss, letting out soft, contented quacks as Vivi worked out the tangles.
"You did very well during the battle, Caroo," Vivi murmured softly, her blue hair blowing lightly in the sea breeze. "You held your ground against those terrifying enemies. I am very proud of you."
Caroo puffed out his chest, opening one eye to give a proud, dignified salute, before immediately returning to his relaxed state.
However, not everyone on the deck was enjoying the peace.
Nami was pacing back and forth near the helm, her brow furrowed in deep frustration. She was violently shaking her left wrist, staring down at the thick glass dome of the Log Pose strapped to her arm.
"It's broken again," Nami groaned, smacking the glass with the palm of her hand. "I swear, this thing has been completely stuck since we left the Florian Triangle. It's not pointing forward, it's not pointing backward... it's just pointing straight down at the deck!"
Robin, lounging comfortably in a shaded deck chair nearby with a thick book resting on her lap, offered a serene, knowledgeable smile. "It isn't broken, Nami. It is pointing exactly where we need to go. Our next destination is Fishman Island."
"Okay, but Fishman Island is an island, right?" Nami frowned, walking over to the railing and staring down into the deep, dark blue water rolling beneath the hull. "How do we sail down? Are we supposed to hold our breath? Because I can tell you right now, my lung capacity is not rated for submarine travel."
"Fishman Island is located directly beneath the Red Line," Robin explained, delicately turning a page in her book. "It sits in a massive cavern near the ocean floor, approximately ten thousand meters below the surface."
"TEN THOUSAND METERS?!" Usopp shrieked. He scrambled over to the railing, his face completely pale. "That's impossible! The water pressure down there will crush us flat like pancakes! The ship will implode into splinters! We're all going to die a terrible, wet death!"
Oimo chuckled deeply, setting his ale down. "Do not fear the depths, Long-Nose! A true warrior embraces the unknown! If the sea tries to crush us, we will simply push back!"
"You can't punch water pressure, Oimo!" Usopp cried, grabbing his head in a panic.
"Ooh! Underwater?!"
Luffy's head snapped around from where he had been napping on the figurehead. His eyes instantly turned into massive, sparkling stars. He didn't process a single word of Usopp's highly logical panic. "Let's go right now! I wanna see a mermaid! And sea monsters! And weird glowing fish! Merry! Sunny!"
Sitting on the railing of the upper deck, kicking their legs.
Mini Merry, wearing her bright yellow sundress and a tiny tricorne hat she had fabricated, popped a bubblegum bubble. She adjusted her aviator sunglasses and offered a sharp salute.
"Ahoy there, Captain!" Merry called out, her voice dropping into a flawless, swashbuckling pirate cadence. "What be the word from the helm? Are we setting sail for Davy Jones' locker?"
Sunny, wearing his orange overalls and a red bandana tied around his blonde hair, grinned widely. "Shiver me timbers, Captain! The radar be clear of Marine galleons, and the sea be calm! Give the order, and we'll hoist the colors!"
Nami stared at the two children, her eye twitching slightly. "Did Ben Ussop teach something to them again?"
"I think it's quite charming," Vivi giggled, covering her mouth.
"Give us the iron armors!" Luffy cheered, pumping his fists enthusiastically. "We're gonna go explore the bottom of the ocean!"
"I am NOT going!" Usopp yelled, backing away from the railing with his hands raised. "I have just contracted a severe case of 'Can't-Go-Under-The-Sea' disease! It was fine when we dove a little ways down to search that sunken galleon back in Jaya, but ten thousand meters is madness. It's highly contagious and fatal!"
"Arrr, don't be a lily-livered landlubber, Uncle Usopp!" Merry smirked, pulling up a holographic screen from her wrist that glowed with a faint blue light. "It be a simple scouting mission! Papa's iron diving suits be perfectly pressure-sealed against the briny deep. Ye won't feel a drop of the ocean. Deploying the underwater exploration squad now, mateys!"
Deep within the bowels of the ship, safely locked inside his heavily reinforced, soundproof research laboratory, Ben was entirely oblivious to the nautical roleplay happening on deck.
Back on the main deck, four heavy hatches slid open with a synchronized, mechanical hiss. Three sleek, humanoid Iron Man armors—painted red, green, and blue—rose from the deck on automated platforms. A fourth hatch opened beside them, revealing the specially designed, high-tech Iron Duck exoskeleton.
"SUUUUGEEEE!" Luffy yelled, instantly diving headfirst into the open back of the red suit. The armor sealed around him with a satisfying clank, the eye slits glowing white.
Chopper happily climbed into the blue suit, adjusting the internal mechanical joints to perfectly fit his small Brain Point form. Caroo squawked a brave battle cry, waddling into his Iron Duck armor. The metal plates clamped over his feathers, and he reached up with a wing to pull the tactical visor down over his beak.
Usopp, meanwhile, was attempting to quietly tiptoe back toward the kitchen.
"Get in there, long-nose!" Sanji laughed, grabbing Usopp by the collar of his overalls and effortlessly tossing him backward. The ship's automated mechanical arms caught the screaming sniper and shoved him firmly into the green suit, the backplate locking shut immediately.
"NO! I CHANGED MY MIND! I WANT TO STAY ON THE SHIP AND GUARD THE TANGERINES!" Usopp's amplified voice boomed from the suit's external speakers, laced with sheer panic.
"All systems go!" Luffy cheered over the comms, ignoring his sniper entirely. "Let's dive!"
SPLASH! SPLASH! SPLASH! SPLASH!
The four armored figures leaped over the heavy wooden railing in perfect unison, diving straight down into the ocean. The heavy, dense metal of the suits sank rapidly. Their repulsor boots automatically detected the water, switching from flight mode to hydrodynamic propulsion, pushing them deeper into the abyss.
On the deck, Zoro leaned over the railing, watching the bubbles rise. "Try not to get eaten by a bottom-feeder, Captain."
"Gebababa!" Brogy roared with laughter, picking up a massive barrel of ale. "A brave expedition! If a sea monster tries to eat them, they will give it terrible indigestion!"
As the dive team descended, the bright, sparkling light from the surface quickly faded, replaced by the dark, murky, oppressive blue of the deep sea. The pressure outside the suits mounted, but the internal cabins remained perfectly comfortable and dry.
"This is amazing!" Chopper's voice crackled over the secure comms, filled with pure wonder. The headlights on the shoulders of his blue armor illuminated passing schools of vibrant, glowing fish. "We used the suits underwater back in Jaya, but we never went this deep! There are so many strange fish down here!"
"QUACK!" (I am the king of the sea!) Caroo announced boldly. He engaged his small lateral thrusters, doing a graceful, slow-motion barrel roll in the water, leaving a trail of bubbles behind him.
"It's too dark! Turn back! Abort mission!" Usopp wailed, his green suit clinging tightly to Chopper's blue one, completely terrified of the open expanse. "That sunken ship was scary enough, but there are definitely giant monsters down here! I can feel them staring at me! We're intruding in their domain!"
"Look at that one!" Luffy pointed a heavy metal finger into the gloom.
Looming out of the murky darkness ahead was a shadow. It wasn't just a large fish. It was massive, easily the size of a three-story building, gliding silently through the water currents. As the four suits aimed their headlights toward it, the creature was fully illuminated, and Usopp let out a terrifying, high-pitched shriek.
It was a Sea King. But it was completely, utterly bizarre. It had the long, sleek, serpentine body of an eel, covered in dark green scales. But its head, complete with massive, floppy ears, a twitching pink nose, and oversized buck teeth, belonged to a giant, terrifying rabbit.
"A RABBIT MONSTER?!" Usopp shrieked, his voice peaking over the comms. "WHY DOES THE OCEAN HAVE RABBITS?!"
The Rabbit Sea King blinked its massive, blood-red eyes, clearly disturbed by the bright lights shining from the strange metal objects. It opened its mouth, revealing rows of razor-sharp, completely un-rabbit-like, serrated teeth, and let out a gargling, watery roar that vibrated against the hulls of their suits.
"Shishishi! It's so cute!" Luffy laughed, completely devoid of any self-preservation instincts.
Luffy engaged his back thrusters, shooting forward through the water. He didn't raise his fists to punch the monster. Instead, he began flying in rapid, dizzying circles directly around the Sea King's massive, floppy ears, acting like a hyperactive metal mosquito.
"Hey! Bunny! Catch me!" Luffy taunted, zooming left, then banking sharply to the right.
The Rabbit Sea King snapped its jaws, trying to catch the annoying red robot buzzing around its head. It missed, spinning its long serpentine body in a clumsy circle. Luffy laughed louder, boosting forward and deliberately poking the Sea King right on its twitching pink nose with his heavy metal finger.
Boop.
The Sea King's eyes crossed. A cartoonish vein throbbed on its furry forehead. It was officially annoyed.
With a furious thrash of its powerful tail, the monster abandoned its casual swim. It opened its jaws wide and lunged directly at Luffy with full killing intent, churning the water into a frenzy.
"Uh oh," Luffy blinked, hovering in place. "He's mad! Retreat!"
Luffy blasted his thrusters, pointing his boots toward the surface and shooting upward.
"WHY DID YOU POKE IT?!" Usopp screamed, firing his own thrusters to maximum capacity as the giant, angry rabbit chased them relentlessly upward, its jaws snapping just inches from his boots. "THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I SAID WOULD HAPPEN! YOU ALWAYS POKE THE MONSTERS!"
The Rabbit Sea King was fast in its natural habitat. It closed the distance rapidly, opening its mouth to swallow the green and blue armors whole.
Chopper squeezed his eyes shut, bracing for the impact.
But before the jaws could clamp down, a flash of yellow and silver blurred past them.
"QUACK!"
Caroo, realizing his friends were in mortal peril, entirely abandoned his usual cowardly demeanor. The spot-billed duck flipped his tactical visor all the way down. He tapped his webbed feet against the internal pedals of his Iron Duck suit, engaging maximum overdrive on his repulsor engines.
Caroo didn't fly away. He executed a flawless, high-speed, expert pilot maneuver. He dove downward, accelerating straight toward the open maw of the Sea King. At the very last possible millisecond, Caroo pulled up, performing a tight, inverted barrel roll that completely buzzed the 'tower'. He flew mere inches over the Sea King's nose, his repulsor jets blasting a blinding flash of light and a shockwave of displaced water directly into the monster's sensitive red eyes.
The Sea King recoiled, completely disoriented and temporarily blinded by the flash. It thrashed wildly, its momentum breaking as it lost track of its prey.
"Caroo! You saved us!" Chopper cheered over the comms.
"Quack!" Caroo saluted modestly, immediately boosting upward to join the retreat.
On the deck of the Thousand Sunny, Sanji was casually walking out of the kitchen holding a silver tray loaded with three glasses of perfectly chilled, mint-infused iced tea for Nami, Robin, and Vivi.
"Ladies," Sanji smiled, preparing his smoothest greeting. "I have prepared a refreshing beverage to combat the midday heat..."
Suddenly, the ocean surface a hundred yards from the starboard side of the ship exploded in a geyser of white foam.
FWOOSH!
Four metal suits shot out of the water like ballistic missiles, arcing through the sky and landing heavily on the grassy deck with loud, metallic clanks.
"We're alive! The ground is so beautiful! I missed you, grass!" Usopp wept, tearing his helmet off and literally kissing the lawn.
"That was close!" Chopper gasped, popping the hatch on his suit and wiping sweat from his furry forehead.
"What are you idiots doing now?" Zoro grunted, cracking open his eye from his nap against the mast. "I thought you were exploring."
Before Luffy could answer, the ocean erupted for a second time, far more violently than the first.
A massive shadow blocked out the sun, plunging the deck into darkness. The Rabbit Sea King breached the surface, roaring furiously, water cascading from its green scales. It towered high over the Thousand Sunny, its massive jaws wide open, fully intending to swallow the entire ship whole just to get to the annoying red robot that had poked its nose.
"A monster!" Nami screamed, dropping her parasol. "Zoro! Cut it!"
Zoro sighed heavily, standing up and grabbing the hilt of Shusui. "Stupid animals interrupting my nap. This is getting repetitive."
"Hold up, I will take care of it!" a booming voice called out from the bow.
Franky stepped to the front of the deck. He was wearing his usual unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt and speedo, but his eyes were gleaming with pure excitement behind his sunglasses.
"Let the shipwright handle the pest control!" Franky grinned, popping his knuckles.
He just pulled his right arm back. In a fraction of a second, the liquid metal poured from his spatial pockets, instantly assembling a colossal, engine-powered mechanical fist the size of a small delivery van over his arm. The heavy exhaust pipes on the gauntlet roared, venting thick blue steam.
"SUPER... SMACK HAND!"
Franky planted his feet and drove the massive, hydraulic-powered Vibranium fist directly into the Rabbit Sea King's soft, exposed, furry stomach as it lunged downward.
KRA-POW!
The impact was deafening. The giant rabbit's eyes bugged out of its skull comically, its floppy ears flying forward. The sheer blunt force trauma didn't pierce the tough scales, but it completely scrambled the monster's digestive tract, halting its momentum entirely.
The Sea King gagged. It let out a bizarre, choking cough, hovering in mid-air.
BLEEEGH!
Instead of roaring, the Sea King violently vomited a massive torrent of seawater, half-digested fish, and kelp directly over the immaculate grassy deck of the Thousand Sunny.
"EWWWW!" Nami shrieked in absolute horror, ducking behind the mast as a tidal wave of gross, smelling ocean garbage rained down around them.
The Sea King, thoroughly humiliated, clutching its aching stomach, turned around mid-air and dove back into the ocean, swimming away as fast as its serpentine tail could carry it.
"Gross!" Usopp wiped a slimy fish gut off the visor of his armor. "Franky, you made it throw up on us! Now I have to clean this!"
"Collateral damage, bro!" Franky laughed uproariously, the massive metal fist dissolving back into his skin. "But hey, I saved the ship! My defenses are flawless!"
"What is this?" Robin asked, stepping delicately around a puddle of smelly seaweed. She pointed gracefully at the center of the deck, where the largest pile of vomit had landed.
Lying in the pile of soggy kelp, coughing up water and sputtering, were two very unexpected figures.
One was a beautiful young woman with short, light-green hair, wearing a bright pink crop top. But from the waist down, she didn't have human legs. She had the sleek, shimmering pink, scaled tail of a fish.
"A... a mermaid?" Chopper gasped, his jaw dropping to the floor.
The second figure was even stranger. It was a bright yellow, five-pointed starfish. But it wasn't just a starfish; it was wearing a Jamaican-style rasta hat, a pair of cool sunglasses, and a tiny, brightly colored shirt.
The mermaid coughed loudly, sitting up and rubbing her head, looking around in a daze. "Oh my goodness... I thought we were going to be digested for sure! Thank you for saving us!"
She tried to stand up—or rather, prop herself up on her tail—but the grassy deck was slick with seawater and slime.
She slipped, letting out a sharp yelp, and fell forward.
Sanji, who had dropped his tray of drinks the moment the Sea King appeared, instinctively rushed forward. He slid on his knees across the grass and caught her perfectly in his arms before she hit the deck.
Sanji looked down. He saw the beautiful, innocent face looking up at him. He saw the light-green hair. He saw the lack of human legs. He saw the pink fish tail resting across his lap.
It was his ultimate dream. The legendary, mythical creature he had sought since he was a child reading the encyclopedia of the sea.
Sanji's brain completely, utterly short-circuited.
He didn't just blush. The real world faded away entirely. In his mind's eye, the wooden deck of the ship transformed into a magical, storybook cartoon paradise. Soft, golden light filtered through crystal-clear water. Friendly red crabs wearing tiny bowties surrounded him, playing upbeat calypso music on steel drums made of clam shells. A chorus of blue lobsters harmonized perfectly in the background, singing a beautiful song about the wonders of the ocean floor and the legendary All Blue. And in the center of it all, the mermaid smiled warmly at him. Sanji believed, with absolute certainty, that he had died and gone to heaven.
Then, reality violently reasserted itself.
Sanji's visible eye turned into a giant, pulsating, three-dimensional red heart. The blood pressure in his head skyrocketed past human limits.
A geyser of blood erupted from his nose with the terrifying force of a high-pressure fire hydrant. The sheer, impossible hydrostatic thrust acted like a twin-engine jetpack, propelling Sanji backward out from under the mermaid. He didn't just fall over; he rocketed vertically into the air in a graceful, bloody arc.
CLANG!
Sanji flew fifty feet straight up and crashed headfirst against the underside of the crow's nest observation deck, sticking there for a brief second before plummeting back down to the grassy deck, a goofy, blissful, entirely unconscious smile plastered on his face.
"I have reached the All Blue..." Sanji whispered weakly to the sky, entirely dead to the world.
"He's dead again," Zoro noted flatly, not even bothering to look up. "Idiot."
"Gebabababa! The cook has a weak constitution for the beauties of the sea!" Dory laughed loudly from the barrel he was sitting on.
"Don't worry, he does this a lot," Luffy assured the terrified mermaid, walking over and crouching down beside her. "Are you a real mermaid? Do you poop?"
"LUFFY!" Nami smacked him on the back of the head. "You can't ask a lady that! Have some manners!"
Before Nami could finish scolding her captain, a tall, skeletal figure in a black suit glided smoothly across the deck, tipping his top hat with absolute aristocratic grace.
"Yohohoho! A real mermaid!" Brook cheered, his jawbone clattering in excitement. "What a breathtaking, mythical beauty to grace our humble vessel! My heart is racing! Even though I do not possess a heart! Skull joke!"
Brook bent down on one bony knee, gently taking Camie's hand and looking at her earnestly with his empty eye sockets. "Excuse me, mademoiselle... may I see your panties?"
Camie blinked, looking down at her sleek pink fish tail in genuine confusion. "Panties? But I don't wear—"
WHACK!
Nami's foot connected squarely with the side of Brook's skull, sending the musician rocketing across the deck and crashing heavily into the same mast Sanji was currently slumped against.
"SHE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE LEGS, YOU IDIOT SKELETON!" Nami roared, her teeth turning into sharp shark fangs, a demonic aura flaring around her. "AND STOP ASKING THAT!"
"Ouch! I think my skull is fractured! Good thing I had new coating!" Brook groaned from the floor, adjusting his afro.
The starfish stood up on two of its points, adjusting its sunglasses with a third, entirely unbothered by the casual violence.
"Yo, yo, yo! Watch your manners, humans!" the starfish spoke, waving its point like an arm in a rhythmic, hip-hop motion. "You are speaking to Camie, the most beautiful mermaid in the sea! And I am Pappag! Famous fashion designer, her master, and an all-around superstar!"
"IT TALKS!" Usopp and Chopper screamed simultaneously, hugging each other in sheer terror. "THE STARFISH IS TALKING! IT'S A MONSTER!"
"Of course I can talk! I'm a genius!" Pappag explained logically, crossing two of his points over his chest. "I thought I was a human until I was a teenager, and by the time I realized I was actually a starfish, I had already learned the language! It's basic science!"
"That makes absolutely zero sense," Zoro grunted, rubbing his temples.
Camie clapped her hands together, a bright, bubbly smile spreading across her face. "Thank you all so much for rescuing us! That Sea King swallowed us whole hours ago! To show my gratitude, I'd love to treat you all to some Takoyaki! My friend makes the best Takoyaki in the whole wide world! It's delicious!"
Luffy's ears twitched. His eyes widened significantly.
"TAKOYAKI?!" Luffy drooled instantly, a waterfall of saliva pouring from his mouth. "Free Takoyaki?!"
"Yes!" Camie nodded enthusiastically. "Let me just call him! He should be nearby in these waters!"
She reached into her small bag and pulled out a baby Den Den Mushi. She dialed a short number.
Bolo-bolo-bolo... Gacha.
"Hatchin!" Camie cheered into the snail's receiver. "It's me! I'm safe! Some really nice pirates saved me from a monster! Can you make some Takoyaki for them?"
There was a long, heavy pause on the other end of the line. The snail's face didn't look friendly or relieved. Its features contorted into a distinct, ugly, sleazy scowl.
"Gyahahaha!" a rough, cruel voice echoed from the speaker. "Sorry, little mermaid! Your octopus friend is a little tied up right now! Literally!"
Camie froze. The color drained entirely from her face. "M-Macro?! Is that you?! What did you do to Hatchin?!"
"We finally caught him!" Macro laughed maliciously. "The Flying Fish Riders helped us out! We're gonna sell this six-armed freak into slavery at the Sabaody Archipelago! He'll fetch a high price! If you want him back, you better come to our base! But we'll probably just catch you too and sell you as a set! Gyahahaha!"
Gacha. The line went dead.
Camie dropped the snail, tears instantly welling in her large eyes. "Oh no... Hatchin... they took him! The Macro Pirates have been trying to catch us for months to sell us!"
"Slavery?" Robin's eyes narrowed slightly, a cold, dangerous edge entering her calm voice. "How incredibly distasteful."
"Slavers are the lowest scum of the sea," Vivi added, her grip tightening on her spear, her royal blood boiling at the thought of people being sold as property.
"Please!" Camie turned to Luffy, clasping her hands together desperately. "You're strong! You punched that Sea King away! Please help me save him!"
Luffy crossed his arms, looking completely, utterly serious. He tilted his head down, the shadow of his straw hat covering his eyes, considering the absolute gravity of the situation. He stepped forward and picked up the Den Den Mushi from the grass.
He dialed the recall number. It rang once before Macro picked it up again.
"I told you, mermaid, we're not—"
Luffy cut him off. He dropped his voice an octave, speaking in a gravelly, intense, hyper-serious tone that sent shivers down Usopp's spine.
"I don't know who you are," Luffy growled into the receiver. "But I have a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over my lifetime of punching things. I will look for you. I will find you. And you will give me the Takoyaki."
Macro paused on the other end of the line, utterly terrified by the sheer intensity of the threat, but completely confused by the specific demand. "T-Takoyaki? I don't have any food, you psycho! I have the octopus!"
"If the octopus doesn't make the Takoyaki, I will punch your face into the shape of a boat," Luffy stated flatly, hanging up the snail with a sharp click.
Luffy turned back to Camie, his serious demeanor vanishing instantly, replaced by a wide grin. "Don't worry! We'll get him back! And then we feast!"
"Are you really declaring war on a slaver ring just for octopus balls?" Usopp sighed, rubbing his temples in exhaustion.
Nami, however, was frowning deeply. She tapped her chin, looking at the silent Den Den Mushi. "Wait a minute... that name. Hatchin? A six-armed octopus? And the way that snail looked..."
"Is something wrong, Nami?" Vivi asked, placing a hand on her friend's shoulder.
"I don't know," Nami muttered, shaking her head slowly. "It just feels like I've heard a voice like that before. But I can't quite place it."
"Who cares?!" Luffy laughed, grabbing the helm. "Free food is free food! Point the way, Camie!"
Camie smiled through her tears, pointing toward a specific cluster of jagged rocks visible on the distant horizon. "It's that way! The Flying Fish Riders' base!"
"Gebababa! We shall smash their base into rubble!" Dory laughed, cracking his knuckles. "Slavers have no honor!"
"Alright!" Franky cheered, flexing his human-looking arms. "Let's go show these kidnappers what a real SUPER ship can do!"
"Avast ye, swabs!" Merry announced over the loudspeakers, fully committing to the pirate persona. "Set a course for the slavers' den! We'll make 'em walk the plank!"
"Aye, hoist the colors!" Sunny added cheerfully. "Prepare for broadside!"
Down in his soundproof lab, Ben wiped a bead of sweat from his forehead. The intricate magical circuit glowed with a perfect, stable blue light.
"Flawless," Ben smiled to himself. He stood up, stretching his back. "I wonder what the crew is up to. It's been awfully quiet."
He tapped his comms bead. "Merry, everything good up there?"
"Arrr, all be well, Papa!" Merry's cheerful, pirate-accented voice replied instantly. "We just parlayed with a mermaid and a talking starfish, and now we be sailing to sack a slaver base to rescue an octopus man so the Captain can pillage some free octopus balls! Shiver me timbers, it be a typical Tuesday on the high seas!"
Ben stared blankly at the wall for three solid seconds. He blinked.
"Right," Ben sighed, rubbing his forehead and turning the comms off. "I should probably go make sure Sanji hasn't died of a nosebleed."